COMING COUNTRY CLUBS.
It is a little surprising that more of these unwanted houses are not converted into country clubs, that favourite estab. lishnient in America and Canada. Some of them have tennis and racquet courts, billiard rooms, and, as I have said, polo grounds, as well as golf courses in the neighbourhood. What ingenious putting or mashie golf courses could be constructed in some of the gardens ! The country club is beginning to take its place even in English social life ; but for some reason it chiefly flourishes—with some few exceptions—in the South of London. But in the North one fine old country house, with a cricket ground and other luxuries attached, is now to be sold cheap, if and supposing it is made into a club. The proviso is new, and comes from a garden city, proud of its new ideas.
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